Peter if your winter Wx is any thing like mine avoid LL like the plague. You
could use standard CC loading coils on a home brew yagi and not be that much
down on a full size element yagi. It is better to have -1db 100% of the time
than have linear loading fall apart when the wind blows at 80mph+.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Sundberg" <sm2cew@telia.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 3:36 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] 40 mtr yagi
> A couple of questions for the group;
>
> What is better when building a 2 el yagi for 40 with shortened elements,
> driven + director or driven + reflector ?
>
> Linear loading is easy to accomplish, but does large diameter loading
coils
> out on the elements give better perfomance ?
>
> /Peter SM2CEW
> www.qsl.net/sm2cew
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